Frances Burney

Born

in Lynn Regis, The United Kingdom

June 13, 1752

Died

January 06, 1840

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Also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay. Frances Burney was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 22,545 ratings · 1,263 reviews · 148 distinct works • Similar authors

	Evelina by Frances Burney, Edward A. Bloom (Editor) 3.68 avg rating — 15,095 ratings — published 1778 — 390 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecilia by Frances Burney, Margaret Anne Doody (Editor), Peter Sabor (Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 3,583 ratings — published 1782 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Camilla by Frances Burney, Edward A. Bloom (Editor), Lillian D. Bloom (Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 2,578 ratings — published 1796 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wanderer: or, Female Difficulties 3.74 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 1814 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journals and Letters by Frances Burney, Peter Sabor (Editor), Lars E. Troide (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1841 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Novels of Fanny Burney (Annotated) by Frances Burney, M. Mataev (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witlings and the Woman-Hater by Frances Burney, Peter Sabor (Editor), Geoffrey M. Sill (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1779 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diary Of Fanny Burney 4.13 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1840 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecilia: Or Memoirs Of An Heiress, Volume 1 3.47 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1782 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 3.74 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1782 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Frances Burney

“Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.”
― Frances Burney, Evelina

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“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”
― Frances Burney, Evelina

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“She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.”
― Frances Burney, Evelina

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare 1606, 249 pages

69 votes, 19.4%

Silas Marner by George Eliot 1861, 262 pages

48 votes, 13.5%

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 1849, 624 pages

37 votes, 10.4%

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 1883, 400 pages

36 votes, 10.1%

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 1861, 176 pages

27 votes, 7.6%

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 1886, 445 pages

25 votes, 7.0%

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 1893, 160 pages

23 votes, 6.5%

Evelina by Fanny Burney 1778, 455 pages

20 votes, 5.6%

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson 1888, 242 pages

19 votes, 5.3%

Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert 1869, 460 pages

16 votes, 4.5%

The Masterpiece by Émile Zola 1886, 464 pages

12 votes, 3.4%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy 1899, 562 pages

11 votes, 3.1%

Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell 1863, 484 pages

8 votes, 2.2%

The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard 1862, 304 pages

5 votes, 1.4%

356 total votes

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